Hartmannellidae

Hartmannellidae
Hartmannella vermiformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Tubulinea
Order: Euamoebida
Family: Hartmannellidae
Volkonsky 1931
Genera
Synonyms
  • Hartmannellinae Volkonsky 1931
  • Copromyxaceae Olive & Stoianovitch 1975
  • Copromyxidae Olive & Stoianovitch 1975

The Hartmannellidae are a family of amoebozoa,[1] usually found in soils. When active they tend to be roughly cylindrical in shape, with a single leading pseudopod and no subpseudopodia. This form somewhat resembles a slug and as such they are also called limax amoebae. Trees based on rRNA show the Hartmannellidae as usually defined are paraphyletic to the Amoebidae, which may adopt similar forms.

  1. ^ "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov". Retrieved 2009-05-02.